War crimes
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
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Baroness von Neurath, 1951 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/86
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Baroness Marie von Neurath on her attempts to secure an early release for her husband, Constantin von Neurath, former German Foreign Minister, who had been imprisoned at Spandau [Berlin, Germany] as a war criminal following the Nuremberg Trials.
Dates:
1951 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1944-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/53
Scope and Contents
Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: a Grotius Society conference for international lawyers; preparations for Elihu's return to Britain; proofs for Oppenheim and "An International Bill of the Rights of Man", continued editing work on the Annual Digest and the Year Book of International Law and HL's memorandum for the Jewish World Congress on war crimes; an opinion of whether the Government could admit Red Cross personnel who...
Dates:
1944-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1945-06 - 1945-07, 1961 - 2001
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/59
Scope and Contents
Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Elihu's progress at Harrow; a visit by Robert H Jackson [Justice, United States Supreme Court]; preparations for Elihu's entry to Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Rachel's planned visit to Palestine. Other correspondents include: Robert H Jackson; Paul de Labilliere, Dean of Westminster. Also includes a draft paper by Jackson for the Nuremberg Tribunal on the proposed...
Dates:
1945-06 - 1945-07; 1961 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1945-08 - 1945-12, 1983 - 2007
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/60
Scope and Contents
Includes HL's letters to Rachel on subjects including: the Nuremberg Trials, particularly his help with the opening speech by Sir Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General and Chief British Prosecutor at Nuremberg, the effect of Robert H Jackson's opening speech, coverage of the trials in the Times and HL's public lecture on the trials; the progress of his book ["Recognition in International Law"]; a good review of ["An International Bill of the Rights of Man"] by 1st Lord Templewood, earlier Sir...
Dates:
1945-08 - 1945-12; 1983 - 2007
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1946, 2003
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/61
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence between HL, Elihu and Rachel Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Rachel's visit to her family in Palestine; possible news of HL's brother's family in Poland; HL's election to the Athenaeum; problems with domestic staff; Sir Arnold McNair's nomination to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; HL's holiday in Hunstanton [Norfolk]; Elihu's progress at Trinity College, University of Cambridge; concerns about HL's health; Elihu's visit to Switzerland....
Dates:
1946; 2003
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1951, 2009
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/68
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Arnold McNair on subjects including HL's proposed book on the International Court, the Year Book of International Law, his own writing work, his view of Lord Asquith [and the Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd v Abu Dhabi case], the Norwegian Fisheries case, his concerns about a planned book by Ben Wortley and HL's forthcoming appointment to the International Law Commission (8); Sir David Hughes Parry; Lord Porter; Sir Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General,...
Dates:
1951; 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Hankey, Man of Secrets": campaign against war crimes trials, 1970-08 - 1974-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 7/132
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Covers books by SWR other than "The War at Sea".
Dates:
1970-08 - 1974-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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HL Biography: "HL various", 1937 - 1950, 2002 - 2009
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 7/42
Scope and Contents
Notes, correspondence and source material on subjects including: treating crimes against Hungarian Jews, including deportation, as war crimes, 1944; HL's contribution to the law of war crimes; HL's graduation from the University of Lvov and family background in Ukraine; Raphael Lemkin; HL's (transcribed) draft of the opening speech by the Attorney-General [Sir Hartley Shawcross] at Nuremberg [see also LAUT 4/36-37]; human rights; the Holocaust at Nuremberg.Includes some original...
Dates:
1937 - 1950; 2002 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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HL Biography: notes and source material, 2003 - 2009
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 7/37
Scope and Contents
Includes: list of mentions of HL in Hansard, 1948-2003; copies of articles and a talk by HL in newspapers and on the radio, 1947-52; records relating to HL in the International Law Commission yearbooks, 1950-55; copy of a note by HL for the committee concerned with crimes against international public order, 1942, including a reference to war crimes against the Jews [see also LAUT 4/24 for HL's earlier memorandum for the committee]; photocopy of HL's Chatham House lecture, "Some Recent...
Dates:
2003 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Miscellaneous minutes and memoranda , 1919-09 - 1920-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/98
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: anxiety about relations between Britain and the United States; the dangerous situation in Germany's Baltic provinces; the work of private charities in Germany; the French attempt to take control of Luxembourg's railways under the Versailles Treaty; putting Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial; modifications to the border between Poland and Germany; a suggestion that there had been a suppression of the facts about the outbreak of war; establishing the principle of war crimes and...
Dates:
1919-09 - 1920-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notebook, 1961-04 - 1962-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AGHM 3/2/14
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: anti-semitism in Nazi Germany; the trial of Adolf Eichmann; the build up to war in the 1930s.
Dates:
1961-04 - 1962-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Nuremberg: HL's draft for the opening speech by Sir Hartley Shawcross [Chief Prosecutor for Britain], 1945-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/36
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Papers from HL's professional legal career, including articles, memoranda, Opinions, papers for the British legal team at the Nuremberg Trials, and papers relating to cases before the Permanent Court of International Justice, and after the war, its successor the International Court of Justice.
Dates:
1945-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Nuremberg: notes and cuttings, 1942 - 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/35
Scope and Contents
Includes: notes by Arnold McNair on 1st Lord Maugham's synopsis relating to the punishment of war criminals, 1942; issue of the booklet "These 21", a collection of reports on the Nuremberg defendants, written by Allan Dreyfuss for The Stars and Stripes; press cutting from the Times on the sentences.
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Nuremberg speeches, 1945-11 - 1946-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/37
Scope and Contents
HL's manuscript draft of the closing speech which he wrote for Sir Hartley Shawcross, Chief Prosecutor for Britain at Nuremberg, with annotated typescript copies of that and of his draft for Shawcross's opening speech. Includes a later copy of the typescripts with further annotations, presumably by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, for publication purposes.
Dates:
1945-11 - 1946-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Punishment of war crimes, 1942-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/24
Scope and Contents
Memorandum written by HL for the Committee on Crimes against International Public Order.
Dates:
1942-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Far Eastern Prisoners of War Claim, 1951-01 - 1951-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/85
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence with the FEPOW Organisation, on a compensation claim made against Japan, as part of the Japanese peace treaty being debated in Parliament, including a petition sent to MPs by former prisoners of war, their next of kin, and electors from JA's constituency.
Dates:
1951-01 - 1951-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
Fonds
The Papers of (Harold) Montgomery Belgion
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BLGN
Scope and Contents
The collection includes personal papers, pocket diaries, photographs, literary material and personal correspondence.
There is only a small amount of material relating to HMB's early life and unfortunately a great many papers and correspondence were destroyed in a German bombing raid on London during the Second World War. Virtually all HMB's letters home written as a prisoner-of-war (BLGN 3) appear to have survived and constitute an interesting record of his experiences during the...
Dates:
1891 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Kilmuir
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KLMR
Scope and Contents
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, speeches, articles, personal papers, press cuttings and photographs.
With press cuttings relating to his father, William Thompson Fyfe, 1906-7.
Dates:
1907 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HNKY
Dates:
1865 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into two sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR). Together, the two sets of papers cover the following major areas:
Personal (CHAR 1 and CHUR 1), 1884-1965
The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics and papers relating to...
Dates:
The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Transcript of interview: Sir Franklin Berman, 2018
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 171
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2018
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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War Crimes Bill, 1991-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 13/31
Scope and Contents
Copy of Hansard including the debate on the Second Reading of the bill and a legal note on the practical difficulties of prosecuting war criminals.
Dates:
1991-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.